Pedro Weingärtner

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Weingärtner self-portrait

Pedro Weingärtner (born July 26, 1853 in Porto Alegre , † December 26, 1929 there ) was a Brazilian painter .

Life

Tempora mutantur , 1898, Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul

Weingärtner was born in Porto Allegre to a German immigrant family. In 1878 he traveled from Brazil to Germany and studied art at the Grand Ducal Baden Art School in Karlsruhe . There he was a student of the German artists Ferdinand Keller , Theodor Poeckh and Ernst Hildebrand . In 1880 Weingärtner moved to Berlin for further studies and in 1882 he went to Paris. He later returned to Brazil and became an important Brazilian painter in his generation, where he last lived in Porto Alegre.

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